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Gigabyte E350N-USB3 Review

Testing:

Office 2007 Excel Big Number Crunch: This test takes a 6.2MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and performs around 28,000 sets of calculations that represent many of the most commonly used calculations in Excel. The measure of this test is how long it takes to refresh the sheet.

Lower Is Better

POV Ray 3.7: This program features a built in benchmark that renders an image using Ray Tracing. The latest versions offer support for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) enabling the workload to be spread across the cores for quicker completion.

Higher Is Better

PCMark Vantage x64 is used to measure complete system performance. PCMark runs a large variety of tests to simulate all of the different performance-oriented tasks on a computer.

Higher Is Better

The Excel number crunch proved to be a stress on the E350N, with it only edging out the Sapphire E350 once it was overclocked. The POV Ray test gave me unusually low scores even after multiple re-tests. In PCMark Vantage, the E350N edged out all the other comparison boards, with its overclocked score taking a clear lead.